Election results from Tuesday's vote in Gloucester still stand

An apparent glitch in the state Board of Elections online results is to blame for poll results that show Graham Blake as the winner in the Gloucester Board of Supervisors York District race.

Gloucester General Registrar Bobbi Morgan said Thursday morning she has notified the state Board of Elections of the problem. The online results show Blake defeating Phil Bazzani by 2 votes, but the absentee ballots aren't showing up in the tally.

Morgan said she is unsure why the absentee ballots tally isn't showing up in the results. Bazzani won the absentees by 16 votes, providing his 14-point victory margin, according to final, unofficial election results.

The absentee ballots are also missing from the online tally in the Petsworth District race, which tigthened Mike Winebarger's victory over Mike Jenkins. The 11-vote margin of victory for Winebarger in the absentee tally helped him to a 23-vote victory, although this morning the online results show only a 12-vote margin of victory for Winebarger.

Morgan said only five provisional ballots remain to be counted, which would not affect the outcome of the results in the Petsworth and York races.

So to reiterate, despite the online results posted on the state Board of Elections website that popped up last night and extended to this morning, the winner in the York race is Bazzani and Winebarger prevailed in Petsworth.